This site features current writing opportunities for authors of all genres, with a preference for Christian publications. The submission opportunities featured on this blog site have been collected by Sally Clark. The source of the information is listed at the bottom of each post. Please check these websites for additional writing articles and information on submissions in other genres.

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Poems may be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or previously published if the poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter each category as many times as they wish. No poems will be returned.

Freeman-Smith, a division of Worthy Media, is compiling a book of short stories about the impact of God’s grace in our lives.

They are looking for contributors!

They want unpublished true life, first-person stories that focus on heartwarming and unexpected moments when the only explanation is God did something on your behalf.Stories can range from simple blessings to a major divine intervention; from everyday life to miraculous.

Designed for 6- to 12-year-olds, Pockets magazine offers wholesome devotional readings that teach about God’s love and presence in life. The content includes fiction, scripture stories, puzzles and games, poems, recipes, colorful pictures, activities, and scripture readings. Freelance submissions of stories, poems, recipes, puzzles and games, and activities are wel...

Consisting of real-life stories written by individuals 18 years and older, NYMB is tailored for a mature-audience readership; stories may contain language and situations akin to a PG-13 or TV-14 rating. While not all stories will fall into this rating system, the series will not focus on death/dying, cry-your-eyes out sad ...

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics is part of Tabula Poetica: The Center for Poetry at ChapmanUniversity. This new literary journal’s mission is to discover, support, and publish the contemporary poetry and writing about poetry; to provide a forum in which the poetic tradition is practiced, extended, challenged, and discussed by emerging and established voices; and to encourage ...

Whether you’re celebrating with friends or family, birthdays are a blast! Using your original writing and a photo or illustration, create a birthday card for a friend or family member (see below for categories). Entries can be sweet, silly, or funny.

1) Anyone BirthdayCreate a card that could be sent to anybody (your friend, neighb or, co-worker, etc.) Don’t forget – if the card is to...

This is a quarterly contest in which you use the first line prompt they provide to write your story of 300 to 3,000 words. The editors are open to all genres and try to pick as eclectic a group of winners as possible.

The next deadline is August 1, 2013. The first line of the story must be: "There must have been thousands standing in the rain that day."

The Arizona Literary Contest was instituted in 1980 and is open to all writers anywhere in the world, as long as their entry is written in English and the fee paid in US currency. We have categories for published and unpublished works.

Articles 1000 to 2000 words, sermons and meditations 500 to 2000 words, stories (fiction or nonfiction) 750 to 2000 words, poems, prayers and liturgical pieces. Weavings is neither a popular devotional guide nor a technical scholarly journal. We are looking for material that has spiritual depth expressed in simple, even poetic, prose. We hope authors will show our readers the subject r...

A wayfarer is one who chooses to take up a long journey on foot. The journey we chronicle within the journal is that of our path across the inner-landscape of our own being. As we reach for answers to the central questions of our existence. Spirituality is the culmination of the individual’s desire to understand the deeper meaning in life. The works found in The Wayf...

Contest Rules1. Open to women 18 years or older.2. Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author.3. Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished.4. Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less.5. $12 entry fee for each prose piece submi...

Mark Littleton is beginning the process of doing a follow-up book to “God Still Meets Needs.” It will be called, “God Still Leads and Guides.” All the stories/readings/devos will be about how God led or guided you (or the person you’re writing about) in an uncertain or needful time. Enclosed is one reading by Mark that may help you in working on this.

Green Mountains Review, in collaboration with the Brattleboro Literary Festival, seeks submissions of unpublished flash fiction up to 1,000 words. The entries will be judged by the editorial staff of Green Mountains Review. The winner will be published in GMR's fall 2013 issue and will have the opportunity to read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival ...

This poetry contest and writing contest is open to everyone and international.We are excited about showcasing the creative writing and poetic talent, skill and ability of all poets and writers.We hope that you have inspiration to display the beauty and art of writing short stories and poems for the entire world to see your "gift of a dream."

Weddings, anniversaries, babies—love is everywhere! Use a photo or illustration and your original writing to create a card that celebrates a wedding, anniversary, or baby. Entries can be sweet, silly, or funny.

1) Wedding - Create a card that celebrates a wedding, engagement, or shower.

Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas is an ACFW approved, traditional, royalty-paying book publisher. (We are NOT a subsidy publisher.) We have one standard for judging a work: Is it biblical? Not biblical as in preaching or teaching, but rather could the story, scenes, and theme be overlaid with Old and New Testament narratives? Our characters dance, go to the bathroom, drink, celebrate ...

Everyone loves to read about miracles in Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Everyone has experienced extraordinary events in their lives that cause wonder and astonishment. Why did these things happen? Perhaps the only explanation is divine intervention. We are looking for true stories in this multi-faith book that will awe you with examples of amazing events. Miracles do happen every day. The deadlin...

Ever want to get away from it all and spend a week immersed in writing? Here's your chance with the annual Summer Writing Retreat at SulRossStateUniversity in scenic Alpine, deep in the heart of West Texas.

The 2013 WLTSummer Writing Retreat will be held July 21-26 at SulRossStateUniversity in Alpine, the perfect summer escape. There’s something about the stunn...

Calling all writers! July 15 is the deadline for BlueMountain arts Christmas greeting card submissions.

Do you enjoy writing personal messages in the greeting cards you send? Have members of your family told you that your words have touched their hearts? You might just have the gift for expressing the thoughts and feelings that people everywhere want to communicate but don’t always know how to put into words. That’s just what Blue ...

You've got the hook, the inciting incident, the meet-cute, the rising action...more action, a twist, more action...more action...more action...another chapter, and another, and ...Maybe it feels like you've been writing forever, and you just don't know how to wrap this thing up. Maybe you've fallen in love with your story, and you just don't want it to...

Specifications: Fiction about exploration for kindergarteners, up to 150 words. The story should be appropriate to children 5 to 7 learning to read on their own. The theme of exploration could be set at home, down the block, at school, on vacation, in books: Use your imagination! The story should be fun, colorful, use well-targete...

Poems may be 40 or fewer lines. They may be unpublished or previously published if the poet retains the rights to the poem. Poets may enter each category as many times as they wish. No poems will be returned.

Freeman-Smith, a division of Worthy Media, is compiling a book of short stories about the impact of God’s grace in our lives.

They are looking for contributors!

They want unpublished true life, first-person stories that focus on heartwarming and unexpected moments when the only explanation is God did something on your behalf.Stories can range from simple blessings to a major divine intervention; from everyday life to miraculous.

Designed for 6- to 12-year-olds, Pockets magazine offers wholesome devotional readings that teach about God’s love and presence in life. The content includes fiction, scripture stories, puzzles and games, poems, recipes, colorful pictures, activities, and scripture readings. Freelance submissions of stories, poems, recipes, puzzles and games, and activities are wel...

Consisting of real-life stories written by individuals 18 years and older, NYMB is tailored for a mature-audience readership; stories may contain language and situations akin to a PG-13 or TV-14 rating. While not all stories will fall into this rating system, the series will not focus on death/dying, cry-your-eyes out sad ...

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics is part of Tabula Poetica: The Center for Poetry at ChapmanUniversity. This new literary journal’s mission is to discover, support, and publish the contemporary poetry and writing about poetry; to provide a forum in which the poetic tradition is practiced, extended, challenged, and discussed by emerging and established voices; and to encourage ...

Whether you’re celebrating with friends or family, birthdays are a blast! Using your original writing and a photo or illustration, create a birthday card for a friend or family member (see below for categories). Entries can be sweet, silly, or funny.

1) Anyone BirthdayCreate a card that could be sent to anybody (your friend, neighb or, co-worker, etc.) Don’t forget – if the card is to...

This is a quarterly contest in which you use the first line prompt they provide to write your story of 300 to 3,000 words. The editors are open to all genres and try to pick as eclectic a group of winners as possible.

The next deadline is August 1, 2013. The first line of the story must be: "There must have been thousands standing in the rain that day."

The Arizona Literary Contest was instituted in 1980 and is open to all writers anywhere in the world, as long as their entry is written in English and the fee paid in US currency. We have categories for published and unpublished works.

Articles 1000 to 2000 words, sermons and meditations 500 to 2000 words, stories (fiction or nonfiction) 750 to 2000 words, poems, prayers and liturgical pieces. Weavings is neither a popular devotional guide nor a technical scholarly journal. We are looking for material that has spiritual depth expressed in simple, even poetic, prose. We hope authors will show our readers the subject r...

A wayfarer is one who chooses to take up a long journey on foot. The journey we chronicle within the journal is that of our path across the inner-landscape of our own being. As we reach for answers to the central questions of our existence. Spirituality is the culmination of the individual’s desire to understand the deeper meaning in life. The works found in The Wayf...

Contest Rules1. Open to women 18 years or older.2. Women Who Write will retain one-time publication rights (print and electronic), after which all rights revert to the author.3. Entries to the contest must be previously unpublished.4. Prose pieces can be fiction or non-fiction and are limited to 3,000 words or less.5. $12 entry fee for each prose piece submi...

Mark Littleton is beginning the process of doing a follow-up book to “God Still Meets Needs.” It will be called, “God Still Leads and Guides.” All the stories/readings/devos will be about how God led or guided you (or the person you’re writing about) in an uncertain or needful time. Enclosed is one reading by Mark that may help you in working on this.

Green Mountains Review, in collaboration with the Brattleboro Literary Festival, seeks submissions of unpublished flash fiction up to 1,000 words. The entries will be judged by the editorial staff of Green Mountains Review. The winner will be published in GMR's fall 2013 issue and will have the opportunity to read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival ...

This poetry contest and writing contest is open to everyone and international.We are excited about showcasing the creative writing and poetic talent, skill and ability of all poets and writers.We hope that you have inspiration to display the beauty and art of writing short stories and poems for the entire world to see your "gift of a dream."

Weddings, anniversaries, babies—love is everywhere! Use a photo or illustration and your original writing to create a card that celebrates a wedding, anniversary, or baby. Entries can be sweet, silly, or funny.

1) Wedding - Create a card that celebrates a wedding, engagement, or shower.

Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas is an ACFW approved, traditional, royalty-paying book publisher. (We are NOT a subsidy publisher.) We have one standard for judging a work: Is it biblical? Not biblical as in preaching or teaching, but rather could the story, scenes, and theme be overlaid with Old and New Testament narratives? Our characters dance, go to the bathroom, drink, celebrate ...

Everyone loves to read about miracles in Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Everyone has experienced extraordinary events in their lives that cause wonder and astonishment. Why did these things happen? Perhaps the only explanation is divine intervention. We are looking for true stories in this multi-faith book that will awe you with examples of amazing events. Miracles do happen every day. The deadlin...

Ever want to get away from it all and spend a week immersed in writing? Here's your chance with the annual Summer Writing Retreat at SulRossStateUniversity in scenic Alpine, deep in the heart of West Texas.

The 2013 WLTSummer Writing Retreat will be held July 21-26 at SulRossStateUniversity in Alpine, the perfect summer escape. There’s something about the stunn...

Calling all writers! July 15 is the deadline for BlueMountain arts Christmas greeting card submissions.

Do you enjoy writing personal messages in the greeting cards you send? Have members of your family told you that your words have touched their hearts? You might just have the gift for expressing the thoughts and feelings that people everywhere want to communicate but don’t always know how to put into words. That’s just what Blue ...

You've got the hook, the inciting incident, the meet-cute, the rising action...more action, a twist, more action...more action...more action...another chapter, and another, and ...Maybe it feels like you've been writing forever, and you just don't know how to wrap this thing up. Maybe you've fallen in love with your story, and you just don't want it to...

Specifications: Fiction about exploration for kindergarteners, up to 150 words. The story should be appropriate to children 5 to 7 learning to read on their own. The theme of exploration could be set at home, down the block, at school, on vacation, in books: Use your imagination! The story should be fun, colorful, use well-targete...

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Sally Clark

Fredericksburg, Tx

Like finding shells on the beach, I love doing market research! And what I find, I love to share! I write in a variety of genres including children's, Christian, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, so these post follow along those lines. Check out my web site: www.sallyclark.info, for more about me.